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Black Lives Don’t Matter, Black Votes Do: the Racial Hypocrisy of Hillary and Bill Clinton
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/15/black-lives-dont-matter-black-votes-do-the-racial-hypocrisy-of-hillary-and-bill-clinton/April 15, 2016
Black Lives Don’t Matter, Black Votes Do: the Racial Hypocrisy of Hillary and Bill Clinton
by Richard W. Behan
The Clinton legacy is black impoverishment—so why are we still voting for Hillary?
–Michelle Alexander, author, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
African-Americans have few reasons to vote for Hillary Clinton. No one understands this better—and says it more forcefully—than Michelle Alexander, civil rights activist, author, and professor of law. She has studied the public life of the Clintons, chronicled their catastrophic impacts on black lives, and observed their self-serving, hypocritical pandering to the African-American community.
The Clintons have always cultivated a warm affection for African-Americans. One iconic image shows Bill riffing on his saxophone for Arsenio Hall. Another pictures Hillary hugging parishioners in black churches. Similar beguiling images appear daily in the media as her presidential campaign progresses.
The affection seems to be mutual. It was apparent in the primary elections across the South, where black voters gave Hillary Clinton overwhelming majorities. But their loyalty is tragically misplaced: the Clintons’ affection is not matched by a serious commitment to relieving the poverty, prejudice, mass incarceration, and second-class citizenry suffered by much of the black community today.
The Clintons’ affection is simply a political expedient. They have relied on the black vote in virtually every election either of them has faced over the past 24 years, but their respective incumbencies have savaged this faithful community.
“From the crime bill to welfare reform, policies Bill Clinton enacted—and Hillary Clinton supported—decimated black America.”
...
For 24 years the Clintons have enjoyed the unwavering political support of black Americans. During this time the couple also enjoyed immense financial support from Wall Street banks, in total some $83.72 million in contributions to their six campaigns.
Today the New York banks are larger and more prosperous than ever. Their executives enjoy stratospheric salaries and bonuses and none of them has served prison time for their documented crimes.
Black America, on the other hand, has been brought to heel by The New Jim Crow. Millions of young men, hardly super-predators, serve prison terms of decades for trivial drug offenses. Black communities have been impoverished.
We have come to this dichotomy since the Clintons arrived on the national stage in 1992. They bear much responsibility for it.
Black Lives Don’t Matter, Black Votes Do: the Racial Hypocrisy of Hillary and Bill Clinton
by Richard W. Behan
The Clinton legacy is black impoverishment—so why are we still voting for Hillary?
–Michelle Alexander, author, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
African-Americans have few reasons to vote for Hillary Clinton. No one understands this better—and says it more forcefully—than Michelle Alexander, civil rights activist, author, and professor of law. She has studied the public life of the Clintons, chronicled their catastrophic impacts on black lives, and observed their self-serving, hypocritical pandering to the African-American community.
The Clintons have always cultivated a warm affection for African-Americans. One iconic image shows Bill riffing on his saxophone for Arsenio Hall. Another pictures Hillary hugging parishioners in black churches. Similar beguiling images appear daily in the media as her presidential campaign progresses.
The affection seems to be mutual. It was apparent in the primary elections across the South, where black voters gave Hillary Clinton overwhelming majorities. But their loyalty is tragically misplaced: the Clintons’ affection is not matched by a serious commitment to relieving the poverty, prejudice, mass incarceration, and second-class citizenry suffered by much of the black community today.
The Clintons’ affection is simply a political expedient. They have relied on the black vote in virtually every election either of them has faced over the past 24 years, but their respective incumbencies have savaged this faithful community.
“From the crime bill to welfare reform, policies Bill Clinton enacted—and Hillary Clinton supported—decimated black America.”
...
For 24 years the Clintons have enjoyed the unwavering political support of black Americans. During this time the couple also enjoyed immense financial support from Wall Street banks, in total some $83.72 million in contributions to their six campaigns.
Today the New York banks are larger and more prosperous than ever. Their executives enjoy stratospheric salaries and bonuses and none of them has served prison time for their documented crimes.
Black America, on the other hand, has been brought to heel by The New Jim Crow. Millions of young men, hardly super-predators, serve prison terms of decades for trivial drug offenses. Black communities have been impoverished.
We have come to this dichotomy since the Clintons arrived on the national stage in 1992. They bear much responsibility for it.
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You're being USED. 
You help big corp and the 1% when you support Hillary Coattails.
